EXCLUSIVE: Screen Actors Guild Vetting New CEO [FishbowlLA]
In an announcement that could come as early as next week, Santa Clara University School of Law professor Steve Diamond is being vetted as a candidate to replace fired Screen Actors Guild CEO and national executive director Greg Hessinger.

Snow and Thomas: Flirting? [FishbowlDC]
In the midst of a heated exchange between Tony Snow and Helen Thomas on Israel and Palestine, of all things, the unthinkable happened. The Washington Post's Reliable Source describes the exchange as "flirting." Regrettably, we have to agree.

Byrne-ing Down the (Columbia) House [UnBeige]
Now that he's safely ushered PowerPoint into the fine art realm, David Byrne is apparently going to do something equally drastic with our love for traditional music packaging. Byrne writes on his blog that he longs for when music packaging becomes truly "liberated," free of the antiquated form that has held it back for far too long.

Idol Borrowing Cable Viewers? [TVNewser]
Did American Idol hurt the cable news channels last night? FNC, CNN, and MSNBC have been heaping hours of coverage on the Fox reality hit — and Tuesday's ratings suggest that viewers decided to watch Taylor and Katharine sing it out instead.

Why Is Tanenhaus Not Smiling? [GalleyCat]
Fellow witnesses with whom I discussed the NYTBR BookExpo panel observed that editor Sam Tanenhaus seemed aggressively defensive about the Time's "Best American fiction" project even before blogger Ed Champion picked a fight with him over a batch of brownies.

On Anthrax, And In Defense of American Media [FishbowlNY]
The anthrax attack on American Media's Florida offices in 2001 was a puzzling event, and now that an AMI freelance photographer is suing the company for "stealing" his anthrax-contaminated photo archive by not securely protecting them, even more so. The photographer is trying to get his $2 million piece of the $250 million pie that AMI claimed in insurance over the attacks. But it's a stretch to believe that anyone could have predicted the attacks and secured their archives accordingly.

Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers [MBToolBox]
Ha ha, silly. There's no such thing as a 'successful' blogger. Every time one is born it quits to go write a book. But there are successful blogs.